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Summary: Learn how to walk the bass line with expert tips and advice on bass guitar lesson in this free video clip on music.
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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more
So now we're going to walk the first two measures and we have our one minor chord. Our only real problem is is we learned on our one major scale, so we're going to answer that problem right now. So here's our major scale, right. And we said our minor chord, or our minor scale starts on the two, so you have this... You can go up to this high fret here. So we're going to take this scale pattern, and just move it down to our root. So we got this...so we're utilizing some open strings, but that's all right. So now we can take our minor scale pattern, and walk through our first chord, our C minor chord. You can put a couple of chromatic notes in there, but just really stick to that main pattern, and it's gold. So that's walking through the first two measures, utilizing our same major scale but we slid it down a couple of frets, so we have our minor scale starting on our one chord.